It’s incredibly important that we’re able to take basic research findings and real-life treatment experience and work with the researchers to run clinical trials to change how we manage patients and improve survival.

Improvements in healthcare does not just happen, quality clinical research is essential to ensure that advances in preventative health and new treatments for disease are based on high quality evidence.

The improvements in outcomes for children with cancer and leukaemia in the last half century have been phenomenal…This has come about purely and simply because they have been enrolled on clinical trials.